One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Shiloh. Every Shiloh in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Genesis 49:10
- last named
- Genesis 49:10
- period
- the Patriarchs
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Shiloh?
Shiloh is a term that appears in Gen.49.10 as part of Jacob's prophetic blessing on his son Judah. The verse states, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples." The exact meaning of "Shiloh" in this context is debated among scholars. Some interpret it as a reference to a future Messianic figure, a descendant of Judah who would rule over the nations. Others understand it as a place name, possibly referring to the city of Shiloh, where the tabernacle was once set up. In this interpretation, the verse would mean that Judah's leadership would continue until the coming of a time of rest or peace. Regardless of the specific interpretation, the mention of Shiloh in this passage underscores the importance and prominence of the tribe of Judah in the prophetic vision of Israel's future.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Shiloh is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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